On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:37:06PM -0800, Anselm Garbe wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 10:27, aleks <aleks.stier_AT_icloud.com> wrote:
> > It seems to me to be bad design that dmenu is intermingled with dwm so
> > deeply and that dmenu depends on dwm to detect to correct monitor.
I always thought it was odd having dmenu-specific code in dwm.c. I
suggested making it generic so you could pass the monitor to any
command.
https://lists.suckless.org/hackers/1612/13797.html
> I did apply this in 2013, the patch was written by Marti Kuehne. The
> reason was that one could leave the pointer on a different screen than
> the focused monitor, and when running dmenu, it wouldn't use the
> pointer location to determine the monitor of appearance.
I think warping the pointer makes more sense. I would really prefer to
have
https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/warp/ in mainline.
Just my thoughts.
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- Ian.
Received on Sat Mar 02 2019 - 17:34:24 CET